The wine and the food take – and admirably pull off – some risky moves at the Portland restaurant and wine bar.
Munjoy Hill
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In Portland, a plot twist for independent booksellers
Online retail and e-readers were supposed to kill independent shops, but a fourth bookstore will open this fall at the base of Munjoy Hill.
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Maine Voices: A few modest proposals for spring cleaning address Portland’s visual pollution
We could add a trash can to Munjoy Hill’s Sumner Park, or we could talk about rebuilding the city’s eyesores.
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Flashback: Exchange Street in the snow, 1977
A Portland Evening Express photograph from December 1977 shows pedestrians walking up Exchange Street toward Middle Street after a snowstorm.
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Flashback: The corner of Neal and Spring in the West End, 1950
A 1950 Press Herald photograph shows two of the city’s old street signs in the West End.
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Flashback: Portland’s Lincoln Park, in 1915 and 2015
Two Press Herald photographs, shot a century apart, illustrate some of the changes that have come to Congress Street in downtown Portland.
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Flashback: Adams Street on Munjoy Hill
A Press Herald photograph from 1954 shows an apartment building on Adams Street in the Munjoy Hill neighborhood. It and many other homes on the same block were demolished in an urban renewal project.
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Flashback: Munjoy Hill, 1961
A 1961 news photograph shows a row of Congress Street buildings slated for demolition under urban renewal programs – but ultimately spared.